--- Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In situations like this, I find Darik's Boot and Nuke quite handy. > > http://dban.sourceforge.net/
DBAN is handy, but I don't believe it handles external firewire or USB drives, and you need to make sure that any drives you *don't* want destroyed are disconnected while it runs. For wiping a single drive, particularly an external drive, I'd use shred instead. It's part of the GNU Coreutils package, so it's already on most Linux systems and it's readily available in the FreeBSD ports tree (but will be named "gshred" on FreeBSD). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
